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Organizations that provide long-term care for the elderly in Illinois operate in a kind of business limbo, unsure of when they'll receive from the state the Medicaid reimbursements they rely on to keep their doors open.
ROCKFORD — Organizations that provide long-term care for the elderly in Illinois operate in a kind of business limbo, unsure of when they'll receive from the state the Medicaid reimbursements they rely on to keep their doors open.
Right now, the payment backlog is about six months, forcing organizations to find creative ways to manage without half of the annual revenue that finances care for two-thirds of patients in nursing homes and about 60 percent of those in assisted living centers.
Illinois deliberately delays paying its bills in an effort to manage its broken finances. The practice shifts the burden onto all sorts of state contractors, including long-term care facilities, which must borrow money and, in some cases, let open jobs remain vacant as they wait on the state.
Small organizations, with just one or two facilities, are particularly hard hit because they lack the budget flexibility to absorb the delays, said Wayne Smallwood, who spent 33 years with the Department of Health Care and Family Services before he retired to lobby on behalf of supportive living organizations as executive director of the Affordable Assisted Living Coalition.
Medicaid-dependent agencies typically turn to their banks for a line of credit when the state doesn't pay its bills on time, Smallwood said. Some have been pushed to the limits of their borrowing power.
"Many of those are depleted, so they go right down to the wire on making payroll in some cases," Smallwood said.
Although small facilities are most in jeopardy, late payments cause headaches for larger organizations, too, said Jerry Finis, CEO of Pathway Senior Living, which has assisted living locations across Illinois.
"It's just unpredictable and relatively sporadic, so it's hard to plan around it," Finis said. "It's hard to go to your banks and say you need a line of credit that might cover me for 60, 90 or 120 days. Then the question is what happens if it goes 180 days, which is always the dilemma."
Illinois Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka said in her most recent quarterly report that there's no end in sight to payment delays. The report said that the backlog of unpaid bills had grown by more than $2 billion in the past year.
"This thing could get even uglier next year," Smallwood said. "When is the straw that breaks the camel's back going to be placed on our backs?"
The impact of delayed reimbursement by the state produces a trickle-down effect, as care facilities negotiate delayed payments to their utility providers and other vendors.
"Facilities have to go out and negotiate a longer payment cycle so they can continue to feed their residents," said Pat Comstock, executive director of Health Care Council of Illinois.
Some nursing facilities may be forced to decide whether to continue to accept Medicaid patients at all, Comstock said.
Comstock said the late payments, coupled with the 2.7 percent Medicaid rate cuts for the state's current fiscal year and laws that mandate increased staffing levels "create a very stressful situation that, before long, is going to result in facilities going out of business."
The state has an expedited payment program for organizations that can't push their borrowing power any further. The comptroller's office has "bent over backwards" to help such agencies, Smallwood said. The state also pays 1 percent interest penalty for late payments. Smallwood said 2010 interest penalties were paid just before Christmas in 2012.
"People are breathing a sigh right now, just because you have a little money to work with," Smallwood said. "We're also wondering when that next payment's going to come and how are we going to make this thing go in the first quarter of the new calendar year."

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|If Jim Kor gets his way, building a fuel-efficient car may one day be as simple as pressing "print."
Well, almost as simple.
Kor heads a team of Canadian engineers designing a car whose plastic body can be manufactured with a 3D printer. They've already made a prototype of their car, dubbed the Urbee, and are working on a second, more advanced version.
"What we like about 3D printing is it can print anything," Kor said Tuesday, during a presentation at the Verge conference in San Francisco. "And when you can print anything, you can think of everything."
Kor's presentation, sadly, included just a small model of the Urbee, rather than the real thing. But San Franciscans may get an up-close look at the car in another year or so. Kor and his start-up company, Kor Ecologic, plan to drive the second prototype from New York to San Francisco in 2015.
And if their ideas pan out, the entire trip in the small, lightweight and aerodynamic Urbee 2 --- equipped with an advanced hybrid engine --- will take less than 10 gallons of fuel. That works out to roughly 290 miles per gallon, given the route that Kor plans.
He doesn't consider it a pipe dream. Kor and his colleagues, whose past work includes designing buses and farm equipment, have created a car whose every feature is designed to reduce the horsepower needed for travel at freeway speed.
It's low to the ground, shaped like a lozenge and almost as small. It seats two and runs on three wheels. And its body --- basically, one elongated bubble --- is smooth enough to make most mass-market cars look like bricks.
"I tell people there are no square fish in the ocean," Kor said Tuesday. "There probably were, but they were eaten."
Based in Winnipeg, Kor and his team came up with the basic concept for the car, built a metal chassis, and sculpted the body in clay. Then they scanned the clay model into a computer, refined the dimensions after doing some virtual wind-tunnel testing, and fed all the specs into 3D printing equipment from Stratasys at a facility in Minnesota.
The first body panels were ready within weeks, far less time than would have been required to make them from fiberglass. And the nature of 3D printing, which builds objects by depositing ultra-thin layers of material on top of each other, created panels with no wasted plastic --- and therefore, no wasted weight.
The 2015 drive --- assuming it happens --- will largely follow in reverse the route of America's first cross-country road trip in a car. In 1903, Horatio Jackson and Sewall Crocker drove from San Francisco to New York, accompanied by Jackson's dog Bud. The trip took two months and nine days. Kor wants his sons, Tyler and Cody, to drive the Urbee 2, along with their dog, Cupid.


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Added details in the lawsuit against rapper Waka Flocka Flame and his mother Debra Antney, filed on behalf of fellow associate Gucci Mane, have been revealed this week. Gucci Mane's lawyer, Thomas Reynolds, spoke exclusively with XXL magazine and shared the specifics of the currently incarcerated rapper's civil suit against Waka and Antney.
According to Reynolds, who believes the Atlanta rapper hasn't been fully paid for money owed, Gucci could possibly seek millions due to the lawsuit, which claims that neither Waka nor Antney had the legal rights to oversee his money and transactions. Additionally, the lawsuit states that songs including OJ Da Juiceman's "Make The Trap Say Aye" were stolen from Gucci while he was in prison.
"Ultimately, if he's not been paid the funds that he's due, he's got a right to be reimbursed for any amounts that have been withheld from him," said Reynolds. "There's people that were taking funds that they weren't entitled to, and obviously he'd need to be recouped for that as well…It's unfortunately not uncommon for an artist to be screwed out of funds. It happens on a routine basis in the music industry, and I just think it's important when there are questions about these things that people are held accountable and they have to show where the funds have gone."
Reynolds also cleared up any rumors concerning Gucci's ownership of 1017 Brick Squad Records and Brick Squad Monopoly.
"As far as Gucci's concerned those labels are still signed to him, and Brick Squad Monopoly is still a subsidiary of 1017," said Reynolds. "As of right now, that's the way it stands. Now if somebody wants to make an offer to buy it, or to release themselves from a contract, obviously he'll entertain that and we'll move forward at that time. But there's been no serious offers."
Although Gucci has filed suit against his former associates, the rapper is currently in prison on federal gun charges that could result in the 1017 helmsman being sentenced to up to 20 years in prison.
In addition to the federal gun charges, Gucci was also recently named as a defendant in a wrongful death suit filed by the family of the late Slim Dunkin. The Atlanta rapper was killed in December 2011 just before he was set to film a music video alongside Gucci Mane.
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#10 YKK Aquaguard Coil Zippers with lockable sliders
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#8 YKK Aquaguard Coil Zippers
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|3/8" / 10mm thick back foam panel
|Bound-edge EV50 .375" / 10mm shoulder straps (EVAZOTE® OEKO-TEX® foam)
|Made in USA with fabric from Korea / Japan / U.S.A.
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|Dimensions: 21.9" (w) x 14" (h) x 9.1" (d) / 555 (w) x 355 (h) x 230 (d) mm
1050d high tenacity ballistic nylon: 3 lb 1 oz / 1395 grams
525d high tenacity ballistic nylon: 2 lb 15 oz / 1340 grams
400d Halcyon®/420d nylon ripstop: 2 lb 7 oz / 1095 grams
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1x 8-inch Black Webbing Snaphook/Snaphook Key Strap
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|Total O-rings: 9 (4 in the main compartment, 1 in the inside mesh pocket, 1 in the left curved pocket, 1 in the right curved pocket, 1 in the left side pocket, 1 in the right side pocket)
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Travel with the Aeronaut isn't like travel with wheeled luggage: you won't ever hesitate to make your way through the crowd, down a cobblestone alley, across the grass, or up the trail. With the load on your back, you can navigate through not just airports, train stations, and bus depots, but through airplanes, trains, and buses. Hard to categorize, the Aeronaut is at once soft luggage, a duffel bag, and a backpack. It takes the best of all those bags and combines them into what many people have found to be their most versatile travel bag yet.
Designed to qualify as a maximum-size airline carry-on bag (the smaller Aeronaut 30, great for intra-European flights or über-minimalist packers, is also available), the Aeronaut can be carried as a backpack (with its zip-away backpack straps), or with its padded handle can be carried on-edge as one would a traditional suitcase. Of course you can add our Absolute Shoulder Strap so you can carry it on your shoulder as well (almost any other shoulder strap will work too).
The downside to most duffel bags is their lack of compartmentalization: we think we've answered that quite successfully with the Aeronaut. The main body of the bag is divided into three significant compartments via two zippered dividers: a large center compartment is flanked on both ends by substantial end pockets. These end pockets can easily accommodate size 12 (USA) running shoes (now maybe you can finally take all the shoes you need with you). The end pockets also are great for segregating the clean from the unclean, or perhaps socks and underwear, from everything else. Don't need two end compartments? Unzip one of the zippered dividers, transforming the Aeronaut into a two compartment bag. Or, unzip both zippered dividers, and the Aeronaut becomes a large one main compartment bag.
The main compartment is accessed through a curved zipper opening and swallows a substantial stack of folded shirts/blouses/trousers/dresses; as you pack the Aeronaut, the end pockets act like bookends, keeping everything in the center compartment relatively flat and folded. The inside of the opening "hatch" features a convenient zippered mesh pocket for small items.
There's also two simple webbing loop handles that are accessible only when the main hatch is unzipped: they're designed to be used as grab handles when and if you need to move your Aeronaut around while packing or unpacking. The handles drop to the inside and are only there when you need them (we think you'll appreciate them).
We make a variety of Packing Cubes sized specifically to most efficiently utilize space inside the Aeronaut. Inside the main compartment of the Aeronaut, you can fit two Large Aeronaut Packing Cubes, one Large and two Small, or four Small. In either end compartment of the Aeronaut, you can fit an End Pocket Packing Cube in either Fabric/Mesh or All Fabric. Also available are the Packing Cube Shoulder Bag and the Aeronaut 45 Packing Cube Backpack: use them as packing cubes inside the Aeronaut and once you reach your destination, unpack them for use as lightweight shoulder bags or backpacks as you explore your destination.
If Packing Cubes are not your style, you can avail yourself of a pair of tie-down straps inside the main compartment of the Aeronaut. Theses straps can be handy for securing pants/slacks or a carefully folded sports coat. If you find they are in your way you can save a bit of weight by removing them.
The Aeronaut converts easily to and carries comfortably as a backpack: the shoulder straps are contoured and padded, and they feature a removable/adjustable sternum strap; the back panel is padded with 3/8" / 10mm thick closed-cell foam as well. Thanks to a zipper hidden inside the lining of the bag, the back panel foam is removable (or swappable) if you don't find you need it and want to save the weight/bulk.
We offer the optional and removable Aeronaut Padded Hip Belt and Aeronaut 45 Internal Frame for those who would like to offset some of the weight of a fully loaded Aeronaut 45 on to their hips. The Padded Hip Belt is designed to fully integrate with the Aeronaut 45 — almost as if it was built-in to the bag from the get-go.
Once the Padded Hip Belt is installed, you have the option of unclipping it and, in one fell swoop, stowing the Padded Hip Belt and the backpack straps in the backpack straps compartment. And with both the backpack straps and waist strap tucked away inside, the Aeronaut becomes a sophisticated soft-luggage piece, free of extraneous straps and geegaws and entirely presentable. Because it is carry-on size, you usually won't be checking the Aeronaut as luggage, but tucking away the shoulder straps (and waist strap) also greatly reduces the possibility of the bag being caught in a conveyor belt if you must check it.
The optional Aeronaut 45 Internal Frame slips inside the same secret zippered pocket that accommodates the back foam padding, and is held in place by its hourglass shape. Some folks may opt to use just the Padded Hip Belt, just the Internal frame, both, or none of the above — for our two cents on those matters, please see our Aeronaut: Frequently Asked Questions blog post.
The grab handles at either end of the Aeronaut were designed to be in the right place at the right time. Specifically, they provide an inviting and obvious place to grab the Aeronaut and give it a yank to extract it from an overhead compartment of a plane or other tight spot. They're reinforced, so if you need to pull hard, go ahead, and because they're padded, the whole process will be as comfortable for your hands as possible.
On both ends of the Aeronaut are exterior zippered pockets large enough for the Guide Michelin and a boarding pass. Included in one of these pockets is a Key Strap in Black.
The exterior of the Aeronaut is made of our 1050 denier, high tenacity ballistic nylon fabric (made in U.S.A.), and it's lined with our ultralight Japanese 200 denier Halcyon/nylon ripstop fabric. We use #10 YKK Coil Aquaguard®
Choosing an Exterior Fabric
You like choices and we like to give you choices! That's why the Aeronaut 45 is typically available* in two different exterior fabrics. Our Materials Glossary explains each fabric in great detail, but here are some quick facts that may help you decide which to choose. And we're always here if you have questions: firstname.lastname@example.com
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1050d High Tenacity Ballistic Nylon
*There may be times when one of the exterior fabrics mentioned here isn't available. Even with our best efforts, the demand for our bags occasionally outpaces our production capabilities: at times, some products, color combinations, or fabrics might be temporarily unavailable or "In Production." See the In Production color combinations as a guide to what our factory crew is making and what will be available next.
Design Notes
When I set off to design the bag that became Aeronaut, I had a pretty clear idea of how it would look. This is not always the case, however, as often in my mind is a set of criteria (usually for the intended utility of a bag) and only the vaguest idea of how that might end up looking. But with Aeronaut, I knew up front that I wanted a relatively straightforward, backpack-convertible, maximum carry-on-sized bag with two end compartments that could be utilized for, well let's face it: shoes. One of my pet peeves with all the bags I'd been using was that they made no particular allowance for shoes. After I started using early prototypes of Aeronaut, I realized that the compartmentalization I had designed worked well for shoes, but also was good for any variety of organizing, such as toiletries, books, underwear, pajamas and even a very lightweight sleeping bag in one end-compartment. Furthermore, the divisions helped control the tendency for the bag to beer-barrel when over-stuffed.
Early testing of a bag often reveals unexpected opportunities to improve a design. While using early prototypes of Aeronaut, for example, I realized that when I brought the bag into a hotel room, I tended to pitch it onto the bed (or bureau) with the bag coming to rest with the handle closest to me. This made me realize that I wanted the center hatch to open towards me, so that the zippered mesh pocket inside the hatch flap could flop out in my direction, allowing me to most easily access its contents. And, yes, I wanted to do that without again moving or reorienting the bag once I had set it down. Lazy me. This initially didn't seem right, but the more I used the bag, the more I realized that orienting the zippered center hatch as it is (in a "U" shape, rather than an inverted "U" that you might expect) really does make packing and unpacking that much more natural and easy.
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your bag already has great built-in organization. that said, you may want to add these optional organizational accessories to further organize and protect what you carry.
Packing Cube Backpack
The Packing Cube Backpack is a dual-purpose packing cube: in preparation for and during your journey, use it to organize and pack your clothing inside your bag — just like how you'd use a Large Packing Cube. When you reach your destination and it's time to leave your travel bag in the hotel or hostel, you can remove the contents of the Packing Cube Backpack and right-side it out, transforming it into a backpack with two compartments, an O-ring, and webbing backpack straps that are surprisingly comfortable for lighter loads.
Packing Cube Shoulder Bag
The Packing Cube Shoulder Bag is a dual-purpose packing cube: in preparation for and during your journey, use it as a Packing Cube to organize and pack your clothing inside your travel bag. When you reach your destination and it's time to leave your travel bag in the hotel or hostel, repack the Packing Cube Shoulder Bag with a light jacket, wallet, lunch or small water bottle, map, and add a shoulder strap: you're ready to go out and explore, and you've saved space by not having to bring a separate bag for day use.
Shoulder Straps
The Absolute Shoulder Strap has a unique, patented, internal control-stretch system that's a lifesaver when carrying a heavy bag. It's the ideal strap for those who carry hefty loads or simply want the most comfortable strap available.
Travel Stuff Sack
Our Travel Stuff Sacks serve a variety of purposes: they stow and compress items like down/polyfill jackets and vests (constraining them to a smaller amount of space) and some folks prefer to use them for packing clothing that doesn't need to be folded, like underwear — we don't fold our underwear — do you? (On second thought, let's not go there.)
You can expect your TOM BIHN bag to give you years of hard service. Our bags are guaranteed to be free from defects in materials and workmanship for the life of the bag. That means if something goes wrong and it's our fault, we'll fix it at no charge.
Defects in materials or workmanship are uncommon and are most often evident while your bag is still new. Keep in mind that daypacks and briefcases are often subject to serious wear in everyday use. We often see TOM BIHN bags that are still solid and in use after five, ten, fifteen, even twenty or twenty-five years, with minor repairs needed here or there. But remember: only true love lasts forever.


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Background on Common Core State Standards
NEA's Involvement in CCSS
NEA believes that this work on Common Standards has the potential to provide teachers with more manageable curriculum goals. Their broadness allows teachers to exercise professional judgment in planning instruction that promotes student success.
The goal of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) is to provide a clear, consistent understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them. The standards are designed to be robust and relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and skills that young people need for success in college and careers.
The Common Core State Standards Initiative is a joint effort by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) in partnership with Achieve, ACT, and the College Board. Governors and state commissioners of education from across the country committed to joining a state-led process to develop a common core of state standards in English-language arts and mathematics for grades K-12.
To date, 45 states and the District of Columbia have agreed to adopt the CCSS, which are scheduled for full implementation in 2014.
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- The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), working on assessments in English and math, received $186 million.
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Boughton's candidacy could hinge on running mate
A political alliance between Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton and former Groton Mayor Heather Bond Somers -- Republican running mates for governor and lieutenant governor -- is starting to show cracks that insiders say could undermine Boughton's ability to qualify for $1.4 million in public funds for his primary campaign.
Boughton has been counting on pooling funds with Somers to meet the $250,000 qualifying threshold under Connecticut's publicly funded election system, which limits individual contributions to participating candidates to $100.
But Somers is close to qualifying for public funds on her own, and going it alone would give her more say over her campaign finances, people familiar with the dynamics of the ticket told Hearst Connecticut Media.
Boughton's formula for getting to the magic number hinges on a $75,000 infusion from his running mate.
"I'm not even going to go there with hypotheticals," Boughton said Tuesday. "We have an agreement and I expect she'll hold to her agreement."
Somers did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Picked by Boughton in January to be his running mate, Somers finished second to state Rep. Penny Bacchiocchi at the party's nominating convention with 32 percent of the vote, more than twice as much needed to force an August primary for lieutenant governor.
Bacchiocchi's numbers slipped after she accused the third-place candidate in the race, former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker, of trying to sway delegates to vote against her because her husband is black. Bacchiocchi apologized to Walker, but not before some delegates considered throwing their support to Somers.
"My one reticence to do so was because of her partnership with Boughton," said Edward Dadakis, a super delegate who represents Greenwich and parts of Stamford and New Canaan on the Republican State Central Committee.
In the governor's race, Dadakis is supporting Tom Foley, who earned the GOP's endorsement for the second time in four years over a field that included Boughton and state Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, of Fairfield.
"I think it makes sense for Heather to go on her own," Dadakis said.
Boughton, who finished second to Foley with 22 percent of the delegates, said Foley's operatives would love to drive a wedge between him and Somers.
"The last thing Foley wants is a fully funded Boughton ticket in the primary," Boughton said.
Without the checkbook of a Foley, who spent $11 million of his own money on a previous bid for governor, Boughton is at the mercy of his running mate.
McKinney and Walker have pledged to pool funds as running mates if they cannot qualify individually.
Foley announced last week that he had raised the $250,000, which now gives him the option to accept public money or self-fund his campaign.
Boughton, who introduces himself on the campaign trail as a "blue-collar" Republican, said that while his opponents were soliciting contributions for their war chests, he was raising $80,000 for his successful mayoral re-election.
"If I didn't have a municipal campaign, I would have qualified on my own, absolutely," said Boughton, Danbury's longest serving mayor.
In 2010, the roles were reversed for Boughton, who helped then-Lt. Gov. Michael Fedele qualify for funding for his unsuccessful primary campaign for governor. Candidates for lieutenant governor only need to raise $75,000 to qualify for public funding.
By raising that amount on her own, Somers could receive $406,275 in public funding that she could spend entirely on her campaign.
But if she was to enter into a joint fundraising committee -- something that has yet to happen -- Somers would effectively cede control of campaign expenditures to Boughton.
Boughton said there are drawbacks to forming a joint fundraising committee, which prohibits running mates from soliciting contributions from the same donors.
A former Electric Boat employee, Somers is an executive for a medical device manufacturer. She is in her fifth term on the Groton Town Council and was mayor of the "submarine capital" from late 2011 through 2013.
Boughton characterized the partnership between him and Somers as cooperative, saying she recently sent out a fundraising solicitation letter to supporters that encouraged them to donate to him. Groton went overwhelmingly for Boughton at the convention, he said.
"The entire Danbury delegation voted for Heather, and we wanted to make sure she got over the 15 percent threshold," Boughton said.
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A butthurt Nick Diaz announced he was "done with this shit" after losing a unanimous decision to Carlos Condit in tonight's UFC 143 welterweight interim title bout.
Diaz was favored to win the match, setting him up for a proper title challenge against Georges St-Pierre, who's recovering from a knee injury. Instead, despite taunting Condit throughout the fight, he went home a loser.
We only wish Diaz had gone on a bit longer and told a few more tales out of school, but he did a pretty decent job of trashing UFC as-is. So here you go, and enjoy. [UFC]
Update, March 14: Video removed at UFC's request. Drawing by Tommy Craggs.


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Chronology (from Latin chronologia, from Ancient Greek χρόνος, chronos, "time"; and -λογία, -logia) is the science of arranging events in their order of occurrence in time. Consider, for example, the use of a timeline or sequence of events. It is also "the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events".[2]
Chronology is part of periodization. It is also part of the discipline of history, including earth history, the earth sciences, and study of the geologic time scale.
- Related fields 1
Calendar and era 2
- Ab Urbe condita era 2.1
- Astronomical era 2.2
- Prehistoric chronologies 3
- Chronological analysis 4
- See also 5
- Notes 6
- References 7
Further reading 8
- Published in the 18th–19th century 8.1
- Published in the 20th century 8.2
- Published in the 21st century 8.3
- External links 9
Related fields
Chronology is the science of locating historical events in time. It relies upon chronometry, which is also known as timekeeping, and historiography, which examines the writing of history and the use of historical methods. Radiocarbon dating estimates the age of formerly living things by measuring the proportion of carbon-14 isotope in their carbon content. Dendrochronology estimates the age of trees by correlation of the various growth rings in their wood to known year-by-year reference sequences in the region to reflect year-to-year climatic variation. Dendrochronology is used in turn as a calibration reference for radiocarbon dating curves.
Calendar and era
The familiar terms calendar and era (within the meaning of a coherent system of numbered calendar years) concern two complementary fundamental concepts of chronology. For example during eight centuries the calendar belonging to the Christian era, which era was taken in use in the 8th century by Bede, was the Julian calendar, but after the year 1582 it was the Gregorian calendar. Dionysius Exiguus (about the year 500) was the founder of that era, which is nowadays the most widespread dating system on earth.
Ab Urbe condita era
Ab Urbe condita is Latin for "from the founding of the City (Rome)",[3] traditionally set in 753 BC. It was used to identify the Roman year by a few Roman historians. Modern historians use it much more frequently than the Romans themselves did; the dominant method of identifying Roman years was to name the two consuls who held office that year. Before the advent of the modern critical edition of historical Roman works, AUC was indiscriminately added to them by earlier editors, making it appear more widely used than it actually was.
It was used systematically for the first time only about the year 400, by the Iberian historian Orosius. Pope Boniface IV, in about the year 600, seems to have been the first who made a connection between these this era and Anno Domini. (AD 1 = AUC 754.)
Astronomical era
Dionysius Exiguus' Anno Domini era (which contains only calendar years AD) was extended by Bede to the complete Christian era (which contains, in addition all calendar years BC, but no year zero). Ten centuries after Bede, the French astronomers Philippe de la Hire (in the year 1702) and Jacques Cassini (in the year 1740), purely to simplify certain calculations, put the Julian Dating System (proposed in the year 1583 by Joseph Scaliger) and with it an astronomical era into use, which contains a leap year zero, which precedes the year 1 (AD) but does not exactly coincide with the year 1 BC.
Prehistoric chronologies
While of critical importance to the historian, methods of determining chronology are used in most disciplines of science, especially astronomy, geology, paleontology and archaeology.
In the absence of written history, with its chronicles and king lists, late 19th century archaeologists found that they could develop relative chronologies based on pottery techniques and styles. In the field of Egyptology, William Flinders Petrie pioneered sequence dating to penetrate pre-dynastic Neolithic times, using groups of contemporary artefacts deposited together at a single time in graves and working backwards methodically from the earliest historical phases of Egypt. This method of dating is known as seriation.
Known wares discovered at strata in sometimes quite distant sites, the product of trade, helped extend the network of chronologies. Some cultures have retained the name applied to them in reference to characteristic forms, for lack of an idea of what they called themselves: "The Beaker People" in northern Europe during the 3rd millennium BCE, for example. The study of the means of placing pottery and other cultural artifacts into some kind of order proceeds in two phases, classification and typology: Classification creates categories for the purposes of description, and typology seeks to identify and analyse changes that allow artifacts to be placed into sequences.[4]
Laboratory techniques developed particularly after mid-20th century helped constantly revise and refine the chronologies developed for specific cultural areas. Unrelated dating methods help reinforce a chronology, an axiom of corroborative evidence. Ideally, archaeological materials used for dating a site should complement each other and provide a means of cross-checking. Conclusions drawn from just one unsupported technique are usually regarded as unreliable.
Chronological analysis
Several legendary sources tend to assign unrealistically long lifespans to pre-historical heroes and monarchs (e.g., Egyptian, Chinese, Hebrews, Japanese), if the number of years there reported are understood as years of more than 340 days. Though chronologies formulated before the 1960s are subject to serious skepticism today, more recent results are more robust than readily appears to journalists and enthusiastic amateurs. Bayesian inference can be applied in the analysis of chronological information, including radiocarbon-derived dates.
See also
Aspects and examples of non-chronological story-telling:
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- ^ Memidex/WordNet, "chronology," memidex.com (accessed September 25, 2010).
- ^ Literally translated as "From the city having been founded".
- ^ Greene, Kevin (November 2007). Archaeology : An Introduction. University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. Chapter 4. Retrieved 2008-01-04.
- Hegewisch, D. H., & Marsh, J. (1837). Introduction to historical chronology. Burlington [Vt.]: C. Goodrich.
- B. E. Tumanian, "Measurement of Time in Ancient and Medieval Armenia," Journal for the History of Astronomy 5, 1974, pp. 91–98.
- Kazarian, K. A., "History of Chronology by B. E. Tumanian," Journal for the History of Astronomy, 4, 1973, p. 137
- Porter, T. M., "The Dynamics of Progress: Time, Method, and Measure". The American Historical Review, 1991.
Further reading
Published in the 18th–19th century
- Weeks, J. E. (1701). The gentleman's hour glass; or, An introduction to chronology; being a plain and compendious analysis of time. Dublin: James Hoey.
- Hodgson, J., Hinton, J., & Wallis, J. (1747). An introduction to chronology:: containing an account of time; also of the most remarkable cycles, epoch's, era's, periods, and moveable feasts. To which is added, a brief account of the several methods proposed for the alteration of the style, the reforming the calendar, and fixing the true time of the celebration of Easter. London: Printed for J. Hinton, at the King's Arms in St Paul's Church-yard.
- Smith, T. (1818). An introduction to chronology. New York: Samuel Wood.
Published in the 20th century
- Keller, H. R. (1934). The dictionary of dates. New York: The Macmillan company.
- Poole, R. L., & Poole, A. L. (1934). Studies in chronology and history. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Langer, W. L., & Gatzke, H. W. (1963). An encyclopedia of world history, ancient, medieval and modern, chronologically arranged. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
- Momigliano, A. "Pagan and Christian Historiography in the Fourth Century A.D." in A. Momigliano, ed., The Conflict Between Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century,The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1963, pp. 79–99
- Williams, N., & Storey, R. L. (1966). Chronology of the modern world: 1763 to the present time. London: Barrie & Rockliffe.
- Steinberg, S. H. (1967). Historical tables: 58 B.C.-A.D. 1965. London: Macmillan.
- Freeman-Grenville, G. S. P. (1975). Chronology of world history: a calendar of principal events from 3000 BC to AD 1973. London: Collings.
- Neugebauer, O. (1975). A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy Springer-Verlag.
- Bickerman, E. J. (1980). The Chronology of the Ancient World. London: Thames and Hudson.
- Whitrow, G. J. (1990). Time in history views of time from prehistory to the present day. Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press.
- Aitken, M. (1990). Science-Based Dating in Archaeology. London: Thames and Hudson.
- Richards, E. G. (1998). Mapping Time: The Calendar and History. Oxford University Press.
Published in the 21st century
- Koselleck, R. "Time and History." The Practice of Conceptual History. Timing History, Spacing Concepts. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2002.
- Ronald H. Fritze et al. (2004). "Chronologies, Calendars, and Lists of Rulers". Reference Sources in History: An Introductory Guide (2nd ed.). ABC-CLIO. pp. 4+.
- Daniel Rosenberg;
External links
- Chronology 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- Regnal Chronologies
- Dating Methods from pastperfect.info at the Internet Archive. Accessed 2008-01-04.
- Dating the Past
- Pragmatic Bayesians: a decade of integrating radiocarbon dates in chronological models from the University of Sheffield at the Internet Archive. Accessed 2008-01-04.
- Open Library. Works related to chronology
- Articles needing additional references from January 2008
- All articles needing additional references
- Articles containing Ancient Greek-language text
- WorldHeritage articles needing clarification from December 2012
- Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference
- Auxiliary sciences of history
- Chronology
- History
- Time


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ROCHESTER — Frisbie Memorial Hospital CEO Al Felgar traveled to Concord on Thursday morning to meet with the Statehouse media corps.
His mission was to apprise them of the harmful impact that Frisbie's exclusion from Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield's network of providers under the Affordable Care Act, will have on his hospital.
He also informed them that he has filed a request for a formal hearing with the New Hampshire Department of Insurance.
"The state is obligated to respond, but I don't know when," said Felgar, back in his office on Thursday afternoon. He wants to be supplied with the data that convinced N.H. Insurance Commissioner Roger Sevigny to sign off on Anthem's submitted plan earlier this year.
Felgar has consistently said that he would match Wentworth-Douglass Hospital's deal with Anthem, but has not been given the opportunity to sit down and negotiate with the insurance company.
Felgar was asked by the Rochester Times what the next move would be if Sevigny repeated his Sept. 20 answer to the Frisbie CEO — that "the Insurance Department does not have the authority to require a health carrier to contract with any particular provider."
Sevigny added, in his letter, "The Insurance Department reviewed the provider network that is associated with Anthem's Pathway products and found that this network meets the state's network adequacy standards."
Felgar's recourse now may be a legal one.
"The next step would be to go to the Superior and Supreme Court," he said. "We want a release of information from the Insurance Commissioner, and are also contesting the failure to give us a hearing."
He said he had hoped that representatives from five other New Hampshire hospital excluded from Anthem's network would have joined him in Concord on Thursday, but they didn't. He is still hopeful that they will join him if he is granted a hearing by the Insurance Commissioner.
"When is one dominant player any good for anything?" he asked. "I am fighting for the hospital, the patients and the city."
The Associated Press reported Thursday afternoon the state Department of Insurance will hold a public hearing to address Felgar's concerns about being excluded from the network of providers for those purchasing individual health insurance plans but did not state when.


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By JEFF PICKELL
I'm somewhat disheartened by the prevalence of anti-intellectualism in America. Granted, there are plenty of reasons to hate intellectuals—they wear berets, they're no good at pick-up sports, they bogart all the library books—but anti-intellectualism is still a problem, especially as it concerns the way we choose our leaders.
A lot of people seem to think they need political leaders who can relate to them—John Q. Everymen who aren't much different than the rest of us working stiffs. They want a regular guy, with a wife and two kids and an old rust bucket in the garage that he tinkers with on Saturdays. They want a politician who can identify with their sensibilities making the decisions that affect their lives.
As someone who has recently taken to combing his hair with a fork because he's too lazy to buy a comb, I am of a different mindset. In fact, if there are any politicians in office who can even remotely identify with any of my sensibilities, they should, for the good of the nation, be fired, impeached or forced to resign. I know me, and I know that anyone even minutely similar to me in a position of power is a bad idea.
I'm surprised that few working stiffs feel the same way. I read a report by a professor from George Mason University recently that describes Woodrow Wilson, a former Yale professor, as the last great intellectual president.
Since Wilson, so says the report, presidential candidates have been marketed to appear less educated than they really are. Our current president, for example, rarely mentions that he was born in New Haven, Connecticut, not west Texas, and that he holds degrees from both Harvard and Yale. Gerald Ford is often remembered more for his football days at Michigan than his career as a crack lawyer. Bush the first and Bill Clinton (a Rhodes Scholar, for crying out loud) both used their deceptively stupid sounding accents to their advantage, and Ronald Reagan, as we all remember, was the Gipper.
Why are the political parties so afraid of marketing a candidate as "so smart he'll make your head spin?" According to the report, intellectuals—thoroughly educated individuals who engage in activities such as writing long, boring books that nobody wants to read—are perceived by the public as effeminate thumb twiddlers who would rather read a treatise than make a decision.
Which boggles my mind. Here's one for you reactionaries who like to throw around crazy terms like "founder's intent" when it comes to interpreting matters of law and constitutionality: the founders of our country were wig-wearing wusses. They were intellectuals in the utmost.
Sure, we've all seen stern-looking portraits of these guys on our dollars and cents, but has anybody ever sat down and read a document written by any one of the founding fathers? No! Of course not! And for the same reason nobody reads the texts of Locke, or Diderot, or Montesquieu, or, heaven forbid, the Viscount Castlereaugh! They're dense and obfuscated! They're philosophical! They're intellectual!
Attempt to read The Declaration of Independence. I dare you. Just try to plow through it. Call me in March when you emerge from the boredom-induced coma it puts you in. The same goes for the Federalist Papers. Heck, a few random lines from the Constitution are enough to put a roomful of crying children to rest.
But this shouldn't be considered a detriment to the character of these great men. Though the majority of our founding fathers were undoubtedly girlish prigs, they still did a bang up job with the decisions that led to the founding of this nation, where I can call the founding fathers girlish prigs and not be strung up by my heels (not yet, at least. We'll see what kind of public response this column gets).
After its founding, the country enjoyed prosperity within the boring clutches of the intellectuals until 1829, when the voting populace soured on John Quincy Adams' "Think about stuff" platform in favor of Andrew Jackson's "Kill Native Americans indiscriminately" platform.
That's where our country first began to stray. We need to go back to the original formula. We need to cede control of the country to the true intellectuals, and put Dubya, Slick Willy, and Bush the First back where they belong—that is, in front of the bathroom mirror, fork in hand, trying to get that part juuuuuuust right. You know, with the rest of us people who want to look stupid.– February 8, 2006


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Outlines the state and national banking eras, the period between the end of the second Bank of the United States (1836) and the founding of the Federal Reserve (1913).
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Learn more about the FOMC and the inner workings of the Federal Reserve's monetary policymaking body.
Tells readers about Benjamin Franklin's role in the debate about devising a system of paper money in the colonies and his monetary philosophy. Based on a lecture presented at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia by Professor Farley Grubb of the University of Delaware. Cosponsored by The Library Company of Philadelphia.
Describes the history of central banking in the United States from 1791 through deregulation.
Discusses how to qualify for credit and use it wisely.
Provides information on economic education for K-12 teachers. (back issues only)
Learn about money, banking, and the Federal Reserve System through the Philadelphia Fed's permanent exhibit.
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Describes and explains the various images and symbols that have been used on U.S. currency over the years.
Designed with classroom flexibility in mind, The Federal Reserve and You is a free video composed of seven segmented chapters that will walk your students through the purposes and functions of the Federal Reserve System and give them overviews of money and banking and the history of central banking in the United States. Our on-screen hosts explain it all with the help of detailed animation and interviews with Federal Reserve leaders.
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BMerlin of Mylor is one of the best presented Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 37's that we have ever been asked to sell. She is spotless and has been meticulously maintained. Built in 2006 she is a three cabin Legende version of the extremely successful Jacques Fauroux designed Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 37. She comes with a great inventory including teak side decks and new sails in 2010. View a short video of this yacht on Euroyachts Largs YouTube channel.
Fuel: 136 lt
Fresh Water: 303 lt
Holding: Yes
Below decks she is finished in a blend of solid teak, teak veneered marine ply and in way of the companionway steps, faux teak. Three separate double sleeping cabins out with the saloon with the option of an additional three berths in the saloon creating nine berths if required.
Comprehensive suite of modern electronics
Raymarine C70 colour chartplotter
Raymarine 6001 autopilot
Navman 5" colour chart plotter at helm
Simrad RD68 DSC VHF radio
Entel hand held VHF radio with charging cradle and 12v lead
Digital LCD barometer
Raymarine ST60 tridata, wind speed & depth instrumentation
Stereo radio / CD player
TV / DVD player with remote control (12-240V)
Compass at binnacle
Standard Jeanneau set up with three panel Z spar rig, furling genoa and lazy bag for mainsail handling. Three conventional reefs to main (could be changed back to single line reefing for reefs 1 & 2).
1/19 Stainless steel standing rigging
Main & genoa by Saturn Sails 2010
Original Technique Voile main & genoa.
Facnor genoa furling gear.
Dyneema spinnaker halyard (intended for use as emergency forestay for storm jib).
Z Spars rod kicker.
Second genoa halyard.
Storm jib.
Yanmar 3JH4E 3 cylinder 40hp diesel engine
New stern gland, shaft and flexible coupling in 2010
Comprehensive engine spares kit comprising oil filter, fuel filter X 2, alternator belt, impeller, oils and shaft seal grease
3 Blade Kiwiprop feathering propeller
Speedseal water pump impeller cover
Webasto warm air cabin heating
Teak to cockpit seats and sole.
Binnacle incorporating instrument console, engine control and compass.
Blue canvas binnacle cover.
Lockers to port and starboard.
Socket for fitting emergency tiller.
Fold down cockpit table.
Custom made cockpit tent designed to fit to sprayhood.
Leather covered wheel.
Gas locker capable of taking two bottles.
Outboard bracket to pushpit.
Unusually for a Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 37, Merlin of Mylor has original Jeanneau teak laid side decks. These have been carefully looked after and are in great condition.
Flush mounted 12 volt electric anchor windlass with ability to be operated by hand.
Two Harken self tailing winches on coachroof.
Fuel and water fillers and holding tank pump out fitting c/w key.
Six mooring cleats in total including two spring cleats.
Two Harken primary winches on cockpit coamings.
Large opening deck hatches to saloon and forward cabin and smaller ones to aft cabins and heads.
Swim ladder
Engine seacock can be closed from out with engine compartment.
Lifeline/throwing bag in cockpit.
Flare box containing 12 flares.
Torch in cradle.
Electric bilge pump.
Cable cutters.
Kedge anchor chain & warp.
Remote actuator for gas supply.
Gas alarm.
Emergency VHF antenna.
Black ball day shape.
Webbing jack stays to side decks.
2 Horseshoe life bouys with lights and drogues.
Pad eyes in cockpit for harness lines.
Manual bilge pump.
Four fire extinguishers.
Grab bag with 6 thermal protective aids.
Portable manual bilge pump.
Bilge alarm.
Pack of soft wood bungs.
Sail repair kit.
Black cone day shape.
The following miscellaneous equipment is also included in the inventory.
Six fenders.
15kg CQR anchor with retaining pin, 40m of 10mm chain plus 30m warp.
240 Volt shorepower with battery charger and ring main.
Ensign & staff.
Cockpit cushions.
Shore power cable.
Shore power cable extension.
Omni directional TV antenna.
Comprehensive list of galley equipment ranging from cutlery and crockery to frying pans and everything in between including a cafetiere!
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Follow the steps below to perform a power reset.
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- Let the television remain without power for 60 seconds.
- Plug the power cord (mains lead) back into the electrical outlet.
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(a) As used in this section, an "ordinary administrative remedy" is a formal administrative process by which an inmate submits a grievance seeking redress or presenting concerns regarding any general or particular aspect of prison life which does not involve violence, sexual assault or sexual abuse against an inmate. An ordinary administrative remedy includes, but is not limited to, complaints concerning food quality, health care, appeals of prison discipline, physical plant, classification, staff treatment or some other alleged wrong.
(b) The Commissioner of the Division of Corrections and the Executive Director of the Regional Jail Authority are authorized to establish procedures for ordinary administrative remedies according to their respective authority for issuance of policies governing the conduct of inmates.
(c) An inmate may not bring a civil action regarding an ordinary administrative remedy until the procedures promulgated by the agency have been exhausted.
(d) An ordinary administrative remedy is considered exhausted when the inmate's grievance complies with duly promulgated rules and regulations regarding inmate grievance procedures, has been accepted, fully appealed and has received a final decision from the Commissioner of Corrections or the Commissioner's designee, or the Executive Director of the Regional Jail Authority, or the director's designee.
(e) The agency shall issue a final decision regarding an ordinary administrative remedy no later than sixty days from the date the inmate filed his or her initial grievance. Computation of the sixty-day time period shall not include time consumed by inmates in preparing any administrative appeal. The agency may claim an extension of time to issue a final decision regarding an ordinary administrative remedy of up to thirty days if the sixty day final decision time frame is insufficient to make an appropriate decision, except in cases involving a threat to health, life or safety of the prisoner. The agency shall notify the inmate in writing of any such extension and provide a date by which the final decision regarding an ordinary administrative remedy will be made.


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Bluegrass music
Savage Bluegrass plays at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 12, at Sam and Elsie's Bar and Restaurant in Laurel. No cover charge. Information: 301-317-7796.
Saturday night movies
Monthly movie screenings designed for family viewing will be shown at 6 p.m. at the North Laurel Community Center, 9411 Whiskey Bottom Road. Each ticket includes popcorn and a drink. Registration is open for the spring and summer movie lineup. Tickets are $4 per person; $2 for center members; free for children 4 and younger but must be registered. Information: 410-313-0390.
•March 16: "Hugo" (PG)
Historical society meets
The Savage Historical Society meets at 7 p.m. Monday, March 18, at the F&M; Center, 9032 Baltimore St. Free. (Visitors should use side entrance off Foundry Street). Information: 301-725-1241.
Montpelier tours
Montpelier Mansion, 9650 Muirkirk Road, Laurel, offers tours at the following times:
•Self-guided: year-round, between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Thursdays-Tuesdays.
•Guided: Sundays at noon, 1 p.m., 2 p.m. Information: 301-377-7817.
50+ Center events
Events at the North Laurel 50+ Center, 9411 Whiskey Bottom Road. Information: 410-313-0380:
Walking Club 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Mondays through Fridays.
Blood pressure screenings 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Tuesdays.
Open Art Studio Noon to 4 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays.
Billiards 9 a.m. to noon Mondays through Fridays.
Sit, Stitch and Give 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Fridays.
Line Dance Drop-in 11 a.m. to noon Tuesdays; $1.
Mah-jongg 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Fridays.
Agewell Exercise Class 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays; $35 for 16 classes.
Enhance Fitness 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays; $51 for 16 classes.
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Chair Yoga Traditional yoga poses are done seated in a chair or standing while using a chair for support and stability. $33 for six classes.
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Wayland students team up with Trafton
PLAINVIEW - To develop and implement a new campus-wide slogan and marketing campaign for 2003, students from a Market Promotions class at Wayland Baptist University have teamed up with Trafton to execute the campaign. Trafton, an Amarillo print company for over 50 years, now provides a variety of marketing- and advertising-related services such as concept and design, creative marketing, and distribution and fulfillment.
"This joint project will benefit our students as well as give our university faculty and staff a sense of ownership of the campaign once it is unveiled," said Claude Lusk, Vice President of Enrollment Management and assistant professor of business at Wayland.
The campaign will incorporate multiple print pieces as well as electronic media, including an interactive CD-ROM featuring state-of-the-art tracking capabilities.
"Working from start to finish with students is very rewarding for our company because it involves us at a different level from what we're used to," said Tony Freeman, Trafton Vice President of Sales. "Normally, we talk with clients during a brainstorming meeting and come away with ideas and projects to be completed. The students' involvement, at this early stage, brings a new kind of energy to the project."
The students began work on the new campaign strategy by researching opinions of current Wayland students. After completing preliminary research, information was then distributed to Wayland faculty and staff for their input. All information has now been delivered to Trafton to begin preparing print layouts and executing production of electronic media.
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My best friend Captain Tony is retiring!
He is one of the most interesting humans I know. He's done everything! He knows everything there is to know about boats, and we trust and value his opinion. He's given us all such helpful advice.
Here he is… sailing with mum on my beloved Nocturne.
And here he is… with dad enjoying a nice cold one.
Here he is again… with ME! Showing me how to keep the door running smoothly!
All three of us love Tony!
He's moved back to the UK now, and is enjoying his new found freedom on land. We are very happy that he's happy, but we miss him lots and lots! We look forward to and enjoy our FaceTime chats with him and we can't wait for him to come and visit soon. He's just the most pawesome human ever!
Tomorrow I'll show you some cool pics of me on Captain Tony's boat!
But for now, please join me in wishing my dearest friend every happiness in his future plans.
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Special master shows New London Board of Education who's boss
New London - The consolidation of the school district and city's finance departments has been placed on hold, pending the creation of a planning committee to identify clear cost savings, the district's newly appointed special master said Monday night.
"You've had little to no confirmation on cost savings, which amazes me," Steven Adamowski told the Board of Education, which approved the consolidation in May. "Which is why you will not be proceeding with this because we need a plan that will justify cost savings and legally protect your obligations."
The consolidation, which has been said by city officials to save the district $500,000, will be subject to further study with the goal of being able to do it over three years, Adamowski said.
As Adamowski outlined his abilities and what the upcoming school year would look like for the school board, its members sat mostly in silence. Adamowski was appointed by the state to oversee the school district's operations last week.
"I will use this authority judiciously. I would prefer in all cases that you be the ones to do the things to raise student achievement in the New London," he told the board. "I have the greatest respect for your volunteer role and civic commitment. I know no one runs for a school board in order to make money or enhance power. You have a vision of something that you were going to do that would make this a better school district for its students. If you keep that in mind, we'll be able to keep our focus on raising student achievement."
At the beginning of this school year Adamowski will assist the board in the creation of a Strategic Operating Plan.
The operating plan, which is due to the state Department of Education in June 2013, is a "living breathing document that will be very sensitive to the gains that occur in the district," Adamowski said.
Contained in the plan will be a vision, a theory of action and major strategies the district plans to employ over the next three years to raise student achievement.
"Think about your own personal vision for the district. When you ran for the board what did you want to accomplish? What kind of legacy did you want to leave?" Adamowski asked the board.
In January, the school board must also submit an effectiveness plan to the state. That plan is based on the results of the state's Governance and Management audit of the board and will consist of a summary of the board's visions and goals. The school district already has a District Improvement Plan.
Adamowski also said that the school board must revisit its $39.8 million budget for 2012-13. From now until July 15, every school administrator will look for reductions to achieve 8 percent in savings.
The revised budget would then go back to the school board for approval in August.
"A great concern of mine and the state board (of education) is that this is your fifth year without an increase. I don't know how long a district can last without resources … There's a limit to how many years one can do that and you're getting very close to that limit," Adamowski said.
He said he doesn't anticipate anything more than a "few refinements" to the budget.
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The huge province of Quebec occupies the eastern part of Canada, with coasts on the North Atlantic, Hudson, and James Bays, and the Lawrence Seaway, the major shipping channel of the east coast which cuts through the south of the province. The main cities of Montreal and Quebec City are both situated in the more populated south on the banks of the St Lawrence River.
The province has a wide variety of landscapes, climatic regions, and vegetation, and therefore numerous different tourist attractions, scenic routes, and holiday getaways to offer travellers. The wilderness prevails in the most northerly reaches, with thick forests and clear lakes dominating the landscape.
This then gives way to the snowy mountains of the Laurentians, popular resort country, while down south is the urban sprawl of Canada's French-speaking cities and the rolling pastures of the farmlands. Quebec has 22 national parks and a variety of stunningly beautiful natural landmarks, including Montmorency Falls outside of Quebec City and the Gaspé Peninsula on the St Lawrence River.
Quebec has a uniquely French flavour, remaining the only North American region to preserve its Francophone identity. In Quebec, French is the official language and is spoken by more than 80 percent of the population. For decades the province has been dogged by political battles regarding secession, but moves to turn Quebec into a sovereign state have currently been put on the back-burner in favour of concentrating on economic development.
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Parking in Springfield is cheap. Visitors from Chicago sometimes joke that it's cheaper to get a parking ticket here than to simply pay the meter in their city. But that could change with a proposed ordinance under consideration by the city council.
On Jan. 25, the council considered a measure to double Springfield's fine for overtime parking, and although the proposal was tabled for more discussion, proponents say they will continue to push for its passage. The three aldermen who jointly introduced the proposal say the city needs to look at ways to increase revenue during a time of budget trouble, but opponents on the council blasted the idea as harmful to downtown businesses.
The current fine for an expired parking meter in Springfield is $5 if paid within 14 days and $10 if paid after that. The proposal would increase the initial fine to $10 and the late payment fine to $20. It would not raise the cost of paying a parking meter.
One concern among opponents of the proposal is that the possibility of an increased fine could deter consumers from visiting downtown. Ward 6 Ald. Mark Mahoney says a scarcity of downtown parking spots already prompts complaints from his constituents.
"My concern with this is we're talking about the problems downtown businesses are having, and we're sending a message here," Mahoney says. "We've taken parking away on Capitol [Avenue], … We bag meters from time to time, and I know it is necessary, but I get complaints from businesses and people saying the meters are bagged, in their opinion, longer than they have to be. I just think it's the wrong message to send."
But proponents say it would actually encourage more customer turnover.
"I don't see it as a hindrance because I would think downtown businesses would want to recycle their customers," says Ward 7 Ald. Debbie Cimarossa, adding that it may be helpful to change time limits on certain meters to better suit businesses. "If it's a 30-minute meter, maybe it needs to be changed to an hour. …We want to work with downtown businesses, but we want to make sure we take care of appropriate penalties for people who choose to park there all day and hurt businesses."
Ward 3 Ald. Frank Kunz, who is running for mayor, decried the proposal as a tax increase when he says the city should be making cuts instead.
"It's still the government taking the money," Kunz said. "It's still a tax. It's a 100 percent increase no matter how you cut it. … I think here we are, instead of cutting the budget, we're trying to raise revenue."
According to the office of city treasurer Jim Langfelder, the city is currently owed $283,344 in fines for expired parking meters and the majority – 72 percent – of parking fines issued by the city are for overtime violations. About 46 percent of all parking fines are paid within the first 14 days, Langfelder's office says, and the city issued 41,757 tickets in 2010. The same number of tickets issued in 2010 would have generated an extra $150,000 with the higher fines, the treasurer estimates.
Currently, the city is owed for 46,113 unpaid parking fines, though that number includes violations other than overtime parking.
Among similar-sized cities in central Illinois, Springfield's overtime parking fine is relatively low. In Peoria, parking too long costs $15 if paid within seven days, $20 if paid within eight to 30 days, and $30 after 30 days. Decatur charges $10. Urbana charges $10 for the first offense in the city's campus and hospital districts, then $15 for the second offense and $20 for the third. In Urbana's downtown district, the first violation is a free warning, but the second and third violations cost $10 and $15, respectively. It's $10 in Champaign within seven days and $15 after that. Bloomington and Normal don't have parking meters.
Cimarossa says she and Ward 1 Ald. Tom Shanahan support the measure and will find a third alderman to jointly sponsor it. Former Ward 9 Ald. Steve Dove originally introduced the proposal, but has now moved on to be an aide to Mayor Frank Edwards.
"We need to look at the cost of doing business," Cimarossa says. "The administrative office that does hearings, the staff that processes all that – everything has gone up, but the fines haven't gone up. That's where we're trying to do this balancing act."
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Love it!! And placing the vinyl that way does sound like a tedious process but so worth it in the end
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Sarah, I am a huge fan of subway art!!! I don't have a Silhouette cutter, but I'm going to look into one! It would be so much easier than painting all my projects!!!
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Groups of students from seven metro Detroit high schools gathered at Wayne State University Law School to talk about race, hoping to bridge their differences, bust stereotypes and build foundations for a better world.
The third annual Keith Students Youth Civil Rights Conference on Friday, Nov. 15, was run by law students who are active with Wayne Law's Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights. The event was sponsored by the Keith Center, Wayne State University Center for Peace & Conflict Studies and Keith Students for Civil Rights.
The conference brought suburban and urban students together for a day. Students came from César Chávez Academy High School in Detroit; Cody Academy of Public Leadership in Detroit; Denby High School in Detroit; Detroit Institute of Technology College Prep High School at Cody; Fordson High School in Dearborn; Osborn Collegiate Academy of Mathematics, Science and Technology in Detroit; and University Liggett School in Grosse Pointe Woods. They shared meals and discussed the meaning of community, their own roles in a community and the role race plays in that community.
"One of our principal goals is to encourage the students to see themselves as part of a broader, inclusive metro Detroit community, which they can have a part in creating," said H. Savala Nolan, director of the Damon J. Keith Law Collection of African American Legal History and program coordinator at the Keith Center. "Every year, this program grows. It's a sign that Detroit-area youth want these unique opportunities to connect and learn and are committed to understanding and improving their communities."
The teens began the day by talking about where they live and go to school and about how those experiences differed and how they were the same. And they talked about how they'd like those experiences to be. They talked about attitudes, and they talked about responsibilities.
One session involved a game with students standing in a circle and being asked a series of questions. To answer "yes" to a particular question, students silently stepped to the center of the circle.
"It was really powerful to watch and see how much we had in common without even talking," said Megan DesMadryl, a 15-year-old white sophomore at University Liggett who lives in Algonac.
After lunch, the high school students, working in small groups, were assigned to spend an hour brainstorming together to create projects that will promote healthy race relationships and build community in metro Detroit – a way to break down the racial and cultural barriers that divide people.
Some of those project ideas, and the collaborative efforts that went into them, are what Evan Marquardt, a 14-year-old freshman at University Liggett who lives in Detroit, found remarkable.
"I think how well everything went actually kind of surprised me. There's a lot of different groups: socioeconomic, race, everything," said Evan, whose mother is black and father is white. "And I kind of expected at some point maybe there'd be tension. But it was great to see how we all came together because we had a common purpose as far as just making a difference in the community. And it helped us tremendously that we had so much diversity so that we could have a lot of perspectives as far as where we were coming from."
The conference ended with a report from each group on its project idea, and with many students, urban and suburban, wishing for more time to keep the discussion going.
That's the outcome event organizers wanted.
"It's really important for students from a variety of communities — and community defined very broadly, geographically, culturally — to be able to come together and dialogue about really important issues in their communities," said event organizer Carrie Floyd, a second-year law student from Ann Arbor and secretary of the Keith Students. "So they can see that their community may not look like another community and be able to understand and have those perspectives when they think about issues, especially issues related to class and race."


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Frustrated after failing to qualify for the MLS Cup Playoffs in each of the franchise's first six seasons of existence, Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment decided it was time to shake things up at Toronto FC this offseason. MLSE brought in longtime D.C. United President Kevin Payne to oversee the team's operation. Payne then tapped former United defender and Premier League veteran Ryan Nelsen to mange the Reds. More recently, MLSE hired former Anschutz Entertainment Group CEO and President Tim Leiweke, the man behind the LA Galaxy's recent dominance, to guide the future of the organization.
The effort has been in hope that Toronto FC will not only compete to re-claim the Trillium Cup from the Crew, but to also guide the Reds to its first-ever playoff appearance.
"Everybody knows Kevin's track record," Crew Technical Director Brian Bliss said. "Obviously with Tim Leiweke joining them, these guys are competitive. They always have been. They're always looking to do whatever is necessary to put a competitive product on the field and they've proven it in the past. I think they'll take the MLS championships, as well as the Trillium Cup, seriously. Ryan is also a competitive person and I think they're aiming to win as many things as possible."
Don't let Toronto FC's 1-5-4 record fool you: the Reds have been able to hang tough with some of MLS's top teams this season. Welsh forward Robert Earnshaw has been a key offseason acquistion and is among the League leaders with five goals to his name in 2013. However, conceding late goals has been the team's Achilles' heel so far in Nelsen's inaugural campaign. Of the nine matches Toronto FC has drawn or lost, six of those letdowns have come past the 80th minute.
"[Toronto FC's] record is not good, ours is mediocre," Bliss said frankly. "But one thing about Toronto is that they've been in every game up to the 80th minute or so. I've said it before: They're the best team in the League, if the League was played over 80 minutes. They're going to be a difficult task for anybody. It'll be a good game."
Transversely, the Crew has only scored two goals in the final ten minutes this season. Both tallies came in the Black & Gold's 3-0 season opening win at Chivas USA.
Crew legend Duncan Oughton isn't the only one to join the Reds recently. In the past few weeks, Toronto FC has added Argentine Designated Player Matías Laba from Argentinos Juniors as well as defender Steven Caldwell on loan from English Championship side Birmingham City and forward Jeremy Brockie on loan from New Zealand's Wellington Phoenix of the Australian A-League. A loan deal for Israeli Queens Park Rangers defender Tal Ben Haim could also still be in the works.
Laba debuted on May 4 against the Colorado Rapids, while the others could debut against the Crew on Saturday. Unsure of what players Ryan Nelsen may put on the field on Saturday makes for a difficult week of preparation for the Crew.
"It's very difficult to prepare for," Bliss explained. "It's very difficult in terms of the preparation, however you've got to prepare as if they're not going to be there based on what they have."


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"It was a really important thing to have on the record, that people knew that this is what happened."
True-crime book published about 2010 patricide near Grande Prairie
"There's a lot of pain going on behind closed doors."
Six years after writing an article on a Grovedale-area man who killed his father, Jana Pruden now feels that it's time to release a more permanent account.
On Sept. 3, 2010, Mat Crichton shot dead his father Sandy on their family farm south of Grande Prairie. Prior to the killing, Sandy had been physically abusing both Mat and his mother Holly for many years.
Pruden explained her motivations behind writing the original article about the killing and publishing her book "Fear on the Family Farm."
"It was a really important thing to have on the record, that people knew that this is what happened," she said. "I also felt that this family could really teach people a lot and that there were a lot of things that other people could learn and I think that was completely shown to be (true) in the reactions that people have had."
Working for the Edmonton Journal at the time, Pruden first learned of the patricide upon hearing that the domestic violence defence would be used for the first time in a father-son relationship. This defence argues that an act of violence was provoked by long-term domestic violence and is typically employed for cases involving spouses.
"I just thought I was going to write maybe a little news story and I could tell pretty quickly that this was a really remarkable story," Pruden said. "I ended up applying to the courts for some documents and I spent about two years trying to convince Holly Crichton to talk to me and she finally did and we did the story."
The Edmonton Journal published the original article, "Fear on the family farm: The harrowing story of a man who killed his father," on March 23, 2013.
The article details how Mat, who suffered a brain injury and partial paralysis years earlier, had returned from his honeymoon only to have his father drive at him with a tractor.
In response, Mat got hold of a .22-calibre Ruger pistol and shot Sandy in the base of the neck.
Mat pleaded guilty to manslaughter as part of a deal and was given four years in prison minus time served.
Pruden, who now writes for the Globe and Mail, decided to revisit the story now that the legal dust has settled. She was also convinced by her publisher Hingston and Olsen that this tale needed to take a more permanent form than an article.
"What they were really thinking about was that this story should be given some permanence, that it shouldn't just be a story that kind of disappeared," Pruden said. "They wanted to give it this special treatment."
"Fear on the Family Farm" consists of the original article and an afterword that includes a new interview with the mother Holly, who has also released her own book about the incident titled "No Way to Run."
Pruden assured that this wasn't a "negative" story for the Grande Prairie region. She noted that the support of locals had helped Holly, Mat and their family overcome a multitude of obstacles.
"In fact, the community is a big part of this story actually," Pruden said. "Although we have one person's bad actions in this book, the rest of the book is full of people who really try to help this family and also just how strong and resilient the people involved are."
"People really did so much to help the Crichtons," she added. "Holly, I think, has said a lot about the people in that area and everything they've done for her."
The book also touches on broader subject matter such as domestic violence.
"Domestic violence is an absolutely huge and devastating issue," Pruden said. "One of the reasons I really believed in telling this story in the first place was because I believed there was a lot people could learn from this family's experience and it can hopefully save others from something so devastating."
"Fear on the Family Farm" is available for purchase in a limited edition of 300 copies at www.hingstonandolsen.com/fear-on-the-family-farm. A book launch will also be held at the Almanac (10351 82 Avenue) in Edmonton at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 4.
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Jan. 29, 2009 — Treating gum disease during pregnancy has not proven to be an effective strategy for preventing preterm births.
The observation that pregnant women with periodontal disease seem to have an increased risk for very early delivery led to hopes that treating tooth and gum problems could lower this risk.
But in a newly reported study — one of the largest ever to examine the question — deep cleaning and plaque removal during pregnancy was found to have no impact on early birth outcomes.
The study, which included 1,800 pregnant women with periodontal disease, was presented today in San Diego at the 29th annual meeting of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine.
Similar findings were reported in a separate trial involving 823 women; those findings were published in the New England Journal of Medicine in late 2006.
Both studies compared outcomes among women with periodontal disease who did and did not receive routine tooth and gum treatment during pregnancy.
"I think it is pretty clear that the type of treatment used in these studies does not reduce the risk of premature delivery," ob-gyn professor Robert L. Goldenberg, MD, of Philadelphia's Drexel University, tells WebMD.
Gum Disease and Preterm Birth
But it is still not clear if more aggressive treatment of periodontal disease affects risk or if treating tooth and gum issues before a woman becomes pregnant can help prevent premature delivery, Steven Offenbacher, DDS, PhD, of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill's Center for Oral and Systemic Diseases, tells WebMD.
Offenbacher was the lead investigator of the newly reported study, which was conducted at UNC, Duke University Medical Center, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and the University of Texas at San Antonio.
All of the pregnant women recruited for the study had periodontal disease. Half were treated with deep cleaning and plaque removal before reaching their 23rd week of pregnancy and the other half received no treatment while pregnant.
The two groups were followed through delivery. After controlling for well-known risk factors for early delivery, such as smoking and history of giving birth prematurely, the researchers found no significant difference in birth outcomes among the two groups.
About a quarter of women with periodontal problems experience a worsening of tooth and gum issues during pregnancy, but the reasons for this are not clear, Offenbacher says.
"This study shows that this level of periodontal treatment does not affect birth outcomes, but we don't know if more intensive treatment can make a difference," he tells WebMD.
Many Questions Remain
Study co-author Amy Murtha, MD, says there is still much that is not known about the relationship between poor oral hygiene and early delivery.
Murtha is director of obstetrics research at Duke University Medical Center.
"Periodontal disease and poor pregnancy outcomes travel together, but we don't know why," she says in a new release.
Goldenberg, who was not involved in the study, says future research should focus on oral hygiene prior to pregnancy.
"It is pretty clear that there is some association between periodontal disease and preterm birth, but we can't say that this is a cause-and-effect relationship," he says.


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A barbecue, sometimes abbreviated BBQ, was a style of food preparation from Earth, typically consisting of cooking a large slab of meat over an open fire. Those from Texas, in the United States of America, were well known for putting on lavish Texas barbecues. (VOY: "Unity")
In 1996, a man videotaping a barbecue in Los Angeles managed to film a temporally displaced USS Voyager. (VOY: "Future's End")
In 2152, Commander Tucker complained that he caught the three Takret that were aboard Enterprise NX-01 "throwing a barbecue next to a plasma manifold." He stated that he understood that the crew were explorers and that they were "supposed to keep an open mind about different cultures," but that the three Takret they had aboard with them were driving him crazy. (ENT: "The Catwalk")
Chef served a home-style barbecue meal on 24 August of that year, with the admonition to "bring your own bib". (ENT: "Singularity")
Later that year, Tucker hallucinated eating steak at a barbecue, while under the influence of a Wisp. (ENT: "The Crossing")
Riley Frazier's mother known for her famous Texas barbecue. After Frazier was freed from the Borg Collective, she had recurring dreams of her mother's barbecue. Prior to Chakotay's departure from the planet where she lived, he offered to replicate her some Texas barbecue, but noted that it probably wouldn't compare to her mother's. (VOY: "Unity")
In 2373, while imprisoned aboard the Akritirian maximum security detention facility, Tom Paris tried to expel his hunger by fantasizing about barbecued T-bone steaks. (VOY: "The Chute")
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The International Transport Forum at the OECD is an intergovernmental organisation with 57 member countries. It acts as a think tank for transport policy and organises the Annual Summit of transport ministers. ITF is the only global body that covers all transport modes.
It addresses the growing worldwide interest in the use of light rail metro transit (LRMT) schemes to provide urban transport solutions and reviews the potential use of public-private partnership (PPP).


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Thanks Bill, VERY much appreciated. This year has been a little slow, which makes it hard for us to do things that allow us to run this and be able to give back to our members. So we try to make the most of what we receive from our gracious members like yourself that believe and continue to help us keep going for all of you.
Thanks Bill but I have a MANY boxes but if I need more I will let you know. Thanks and I hope you guys are doing good. Take care and hope to see you at one of the bike nites.
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